Sand mining devours Mekong River bank

A section of the National Highway 91 next to the Hau River is eroded away, May 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Cuu Long

Around 500 hectares of riverbank are lost yearly across the Mekong Delta to excessive sand mining, according to World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the agriculture ministry.

In a Thursday conference on maintaining the shape of the Mekong Delta region, organized by the WWF and Vietnam Disaster Management Authority under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, organizers stressed that river sand is frequently mined across the delta.

While there are over 80 companies approved to mine 28 million tons of river sand every year, the actual amount of mined sand is hard to be verified and managed, they said.

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